John Cameron Mitchell

John Cameron Mitchell was born on April 21, 1963 in El Paso, TX to a retired U.S. Army Major General and a schoolteacher. Because of his father's military background, Mitchell's family lived on various army bases in the U.S., Germany and Scotland. He studied theater at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL prior to making his professional stage debut as Huckleberry Finn in a 1985 production at Chicago's Goodman Theatre, only to play the iconic character again in the Broadway musical "Big River" (1985). Mitchell further put his stamp on the theater world after he was cast in the musical "The Secret Garden" (1991), a role that earned him a Drama Desk nomination. He made his onscreen acting d... Continue Bio >>